Winds of Change
Subtitle: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780807826133
Subjects: Atmospheric disturbances; History of other lands; Social & cultural anthropology; Social impact of disasters; Social research & statistics; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Cuba - History; Hurricanes; History - General History; Modern - 19th Century; History: World; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Natural Disasters; History / Modern / 20th Century; Cuba; Modern - 20th Century; 19th century; Economic aspects; Economic conditions
First sentence: The winds originate from the eastern waters of the Atlantic, from somewhere on the vast oceanic expanse between the Cape Verde Island and Barbados, at the point where the prevailing northeasterly breezes above the equator converge with southeasterly breezes from the below the equator.